HP 7580A questions

[Stefan]

Tony,

I haven't hooked it up to any system because I dont have any system 
to hook it up to.
That is sort of my second question; if I would buy a modern PCI GPIB 
card would I be able to make it work with the 7580A or other similar devices ?

Stefan.

At 02:01 4-8-2005, you wrote:
> >
> > I dug up a HP 7580A and hooked it up, it seems to work fine.
> > But the question is now, how do I make it do anything, WITHOUT a system ?
> > Pressin pen down doesn't do much, and although I can move left and
> > right I cant make it move the paper forward and backward.
>
>Are you saying these functions do work correctly from the computer
>interface (in other words you can send it (presuambly) an HPGL file and
>get it to plot it correctly?).
>
>If so, have you checked that that the frontpanel buttons are actually
>making proper contact?
>
>-tony

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